It has been two weeks since Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 Billion and took on $13 billion debt in the process. Since then, advertiser have fled, Twitter Blue was revamped with less features and higher price (which includes a very worthless verification badge which they attempted to resolve with yet another badge) several key executives keep leaving (which could put Twitter in danger of violating an FTC decree from 2011 resulting in massive fines) and he gutted half the workforce…plus the remaining half which survived the massive layoff last week are being told working remote is no longer an…
November 10, 2022
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Yet another Twitter Executive has left. Chief Consumer Officers (business ad sales) and CMO Leslie Berland left shortly after Chief Twit took-over Twitter. Today comes news, Twitter chief information security officer Lea Kissner has also departed. I’ve made the hard decision to leave Twitter. I’ve had the opportunity to work with amazing people and I’m so proud of the privacy, security, and IT teams and the work we’ve done. I’m looking forward to figuring out what’s next, starting with my reviews for @USENIXSecurity 😁 — Lea Kissner (@LeaKissner) November 10, 2022 Also chief privacy officer Damien Kieran and chief compliance officer…
Chief Twit had this to say Wednesday morning… Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months. We will keep what works & change what doesn’t. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2022 Well, at least he is being honest. However, why do we get the feeling it is going to me more like ‘We will keep what doesn’t work & change what does. To his credit though he did change Twitter Blue due to the verification not working as planned….by suspending new subscriptions.
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Just days after the re-launched of Twitter Blue (and all the new ‘fake’ accounts that followed), Twitter has temporally blocked new users from being able to subscribe to Twitter Blue. Twitter has altered the rules for its $8 Blue subscription service to prevent new accounts from getting a blue checkmark. Yesterday evening, the company edited the service’s help page to add that accounts created on or after November 9th, 2022 “will be unable to subscribe to Twitter Blue at this time.” The website also added that Twitter Blue is only available on iOS for users in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the…
We shall call this step #4 in Chief Twit’s ultimate plan to kill Twitter. To recap the plan so far: Step #1: Twitter Blue price and feature changes Step #2: The ‘Verified’ Blue Checkmark fiasco Step #3: Scaring off your advertisers Step #4: Banning Remote Work This tactic might work with Tesla and SpaceX which both have more employees than Twitter (Tesla 99K, SpaceX 9.5K, Twitter 7.5K pre-layoff). However, Twitter employees are a different breed and much like employees of other tech companies have come expect to be able to work remotely. We will see how long before Twitter Employees…
Even before the launch of the “new” Twitter Blue (now with ‘Verified’ Blue checkmark) there has been issues with the verification system. Then there were the US celebrities who changed their profile information on their Verified accounts to impersonate Elon Musk. Many of those accounts end up being banned. Now the ‘new and improved’ Twitter Blue has launched for the low price of $7.99 USD a month (or is it $4.99 USD a month)? Two prices being shown for Twitter Blue membership (BleepingComputer) Regardless of the price the verification system is clearly still broken. From a fake profile being created for Rockstar…